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• Originally published 12/30/2016

  While You Weren’t Looking, the FBI Acquired the Power to Spy on You

  Suzy Evans

  Once again security concerns are overriding civil liberties.

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• Originally published 12/19/2016

  Canada approved secret phone-tapping during Cold War

  The surveillance program, codenamed “Picnic,” began as an emergency effort during the Korean War, but federal agencies collaborated with telephone companies in 1954 to continue the wiretaps, says Dennis Molinaro, who teaches history at Ontario’s Trent University.

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• Originally published 10/16/2015

  We’ve Just Learned the Origins of Illegal Surveillance in the United States Go Back to the 1930s

  Steve Usdin

  An oral history just released shows that cryptologists working for the Army knew they were breaking the law when they conducted secret electronic surveillance.

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• Originally published 03/25/2014

  Invasion of the Data Snatchers

  Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood

  Big Data and the Internet of Things means the surveillance of everything.

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• Originally published 12/16/2013

  The More Things Change...

  Jim Sleeper

  A blast from the past, as a New York Times letter to the editor from 1970 on surveillance resonates remarkably well today.

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• Originally published 10/24/2013

  The Founding Fathers Vacillated on Government Snooping, Too

  Ritika Singh and Benjamin Wittes

  James Madison went back and forth over how security should inflect the powers we invest in government.

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• Originally published 09/27/2013

  Secret Cold War documents reveal NSA spied on senators

  ...along with Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, and a Washington Post humorist.

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• Originally published 09/05/2013

  The search for Suleiman the Magnificent's heart

  The Ottoman ruler's body is buried in Istanbul, but his heart is (reputedly) buried in Hungary

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• Originally published 01/19/2016

  The Tremendous Toch Brothers #8

  Joshua Brown

  Mistaken for federal varmints!

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• Originally published 10/31/2013

  Critics of Spying on Allies Need a Better Narrative

  Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica

  The narrative that critics rely on now only reinforces the administration's own story.